Title: Letter concerning sidetrack for packing house at Homestead

Summary: Letter from E. Ben Carter, Chief Engineer of the Florida East Coast Railroad, to land agent Frederick Morse, May 2, 1919, concerning a proposed sidetrack for the Redlands Citrus Growers Association for their proposed packing house at Homestead. Morse had sent to Carter a blueprint on behalf of J. Reed Curry, representative of the Association, indicating spur tracks which Curry hoped to install. Carter replies that Vice-president J. P. Beckwith did not approve of these tracks because it would require too much time for the local freight train to handle cars to and from Homestead.

Creator: Carter, E. Ben

Collection Title: Model Land Company Records

Collection No.: ASM0075

Archive: asm00750000450001001.tif

Physical Description: 1 typewritten leaf

Container: Box No.: 20, Folder Title: Inquiry: for sidetrack for packing house at Homestead, 1919 (Special file 647).

Recipient: Morse, Frederick S., 1859-1920

Coverage Temporal: 1910-1919

Coverage Spatial: Miami-Dade County (Fla.)

Date: 1919

Digital ID: asm00750000450001001

Genre: Commercial correspondence

Repository: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

Series: Series: I Special Files

Subject: Land use; Railroads

Repository: Digital Collections

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